The Book of Moods

Every situation, properly perceived, becomes an opportunity…
—Helen Schucman, A Course in Miracles

Waiting rooms became places of destiny. Traffic became time to reflect. Everything became this experiment of chance. I was excited for the unexpected that occurred because of the unpleasant

Virginia Woolf repeated over and over again like a mantra: “I am going to face certain things. It is going to be a time of adventure and attack.”

less fixing and more accepting

“I must be very careful, today I have left my armor at home”

Social media is a microcosm of life. It’s a summary of all your illusions, hopes, dreams, anxieties, and fears. But if you only see models and engagement photos and beautifully filtered friends out to dinner without you, your world becomes as small of those things

But if everything was always smooth and perfect, you’d get too used to that, you know? You have to have a little bit of disorganization now and then. Otherwise, you’ll never really enjoy it when things go right.
—Sarah Dessen, The Truth About Forever

Waiting rooms became places of destiny. Traffic became time to reflect. Everything became this experiment of chance. I was excited for the unexpected that occurred because of the unpleasant. I started carrying my notebook around on errands, train rides, and while waiting for friends who were always late. I didn’t want to forget. I wanted to be present when destiny happened. I wanted to live deliberately in the spaces in between

The way artists can produce their best works in times of pain, life produces its best moments in times of inconvenience

the greatest things that happen are usually the result of something worse that happened before